Biology:Waterstonella

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Short description: Extinct genus of crustaceans

Waterstonella
Temporal range: Lower Carboniferous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Subphylum:
Order:
Waterstonellidea

Schram, 1981
Family:
Waterstonellidae

Schram, 1979
Genus:
Waterstonella

Schram, 1979
Species:
W. grantonensis
Binomial name
Waterstonella grantonensis

Waterstonella grantonensis is a species of fossil crustacean so distinct from other crustaceans that it has been placed in its own genus, Waterstonella, family, Waterstonellidae, and order, Waterstonellidea.[1] It is named after Charles Waterstone, keeper of geology at the Royal Scottish Museum,[2] while the specific epithet commemorates the location where the fossil was found, the Granton shrimp beds, near Edinburgh.[3]

References

  1. Patrick J. Orr & Derek E. G. Briggs (1999). Exceptionally preserved conchostracans and other crustaceans from the Upper Carboniferous of Ireland. Special papers in palaeontology. 62. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-901702-68-5. 
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  3. E. N. K. Clarkson (1985). "Carboniferous crustaceans". Geology Today 1 (1): 11–15. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2451.1985.tb00277.x. 

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